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A clap of thunder heralded the passing of Charlie “Bird” Parker. Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, who gave Parker refuge and comfort during his final days in her suite in the Hotel Stanhope on 5th Avenue in New York, recalled, “At the moment of his going, there was a tremendous clap of thunder. I didn’t think about it at the time, but I’ve thought about it often since; how strange it was.” One musician speculated that Parker disintegrated into “pure sound.”

Charlie Parker had lived life to its fullest. Robert Reisner, a friend of Parker and author of Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, observed, “Charlie Parker, in the brief span of his life, crowded more living into it than any other human being. He was a man of tremendous physical appetites. He ate like a horse, drank like a fish, was as sexy as a rabbit. He was complete in the world, was interested in everything. He composed, painted; he loved machines, cars; he was a loving father ….No one had such a love of life, and no one tried harder to kill himself….” Dr. Richard Freymann, the attendant physician during Parker

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Charlie Parker

American jazz musician (1920–1955)

This article is about the American jazz musician. For other people with the same name, see Charlie Parker (disambiguation).

Musical artist

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazzsaxophonist, bandleader, and composer.^[1]^[2] Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop,^[3] a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and advanced harmonies. He was a virtuoso and introduced revolutionary rhythmic and harmonic ideas into jazz, including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions. Parker was primarily a player of the alto saxophone.

Parker was an icon for the hipster subculture and later the Beat Generation, personifying the jazz musician as an uncompromising artist and intellectual rather than just an entertainer.^[4]

Early life

Charles Parker Jr. was born in Kansas City, Kansas, to Charles Parker Sr. and Adela

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The enigma of Charlie Parker is partly based on multiple inconsistencies regarding his life and the memories people have of him. The nickname 'Yardbird' or 'Bird' is no exception.....

Teddy Blume says he got the name Yardbird, because he was always found in the yard outside clubs listening to the bands inside. He was too young to go into the club, so he used to 'practice' outside with the sax. He says sometimes they found him asleep in the alley?

The Jay McShann band was on its way to play a job at the University of Nebraska. As they passed a farm, the car Charlie Parker was riding in hit a chicken that ran across the road. McShann said: Charlie told the driver, "Man, go back, you hit that yardbird." They went back, and Charlie jumped out and got the chicken. When they got to Lincoln, he asked the lady who ran the boarding house where we were staying to cook it for dinner.

Parker once mentioned that his little cousin could not pronounce 'Charlie' but could only say 'Yarlie' and this gradually transfigured into Yarl, Yard, Yard